Does selection of mortality model make a difference in projecting population ageing?

Background: In low mortality countries, assessing future ageing depends to a large extent on scenarios of future mortality reduction at old age. Often in population projections mortality reduction is implemented via life expectancy increases that do not specify mortality change at specific age group...

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Main Authors: Scherbov, Sergei, Ediev, Dalkhat
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2016
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/5928/1/Scherbov__etal_2016_DR_Does%2Dselection%2Dof%2Dmortality%2Dmodel.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.2